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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "What Would You Do If You Were President?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have the communists told the northern province villagers about the Americans?
(a) They are rich snobs who don't understand Filipinos
(b) They smell bad
(c) They torture everyone
(d) They are good and decent people

2. What first caused Father Finian to realize the dangers of communism?
(a) He saw Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart
(b) The Pope sent him a letter
(c) An encounter with a young American soldier in WWII
(d) He was recruited by a fellow priest

3. Who informed the Ambassador of this visit?
(a) Father Finian
(b) The press attache'
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) Joe Bing

4. Why is this not good evidence?
(a) Louis Sears invented it
(b) It is not acceptable in court
(c) It is not in English
(d) The Sarkhanese government ordered the paper to write it in order to smooth relations

5. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes
(b) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant
(c) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco
(d) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?

2. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?

3. Who does Sears ask Peterson to assign to Sarkhan?

4. How many acres of land were involved in this incident?

5. How did Sears cover his mistake about the mis-labeled rice?

(see the answer key)

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